
HP StoreFabric SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch
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Overview:
To remain competitive, IT organizations must keep pace with ever-increasing workloads without a similar increase in their budgets or resources. While virtualization has provided some relief by enabling the benefits of faster deployment and consolidation, it tends to put additional stress on data center networks.
The HP SN6000B Fibre Channel Switch meets the demands of hyper-scale, private cloud storage environments by delivering marketleading 16 Gb Fibre Channel technology and capabilities that support highly virtualized environments. Designed to enable maximum flexibility and investment protection, the SN6000B Switch is configurable in 24, 36, or 48 ports and supports 4, 8, 10, or 16 Gbps speeds in an efficiently designed 1U package.
It also provides a simplified deployment process and a point-and-click user interfacemaking it both powerful and easy to use. The SN6000B Switch offers low-cost access to industry-leading Storage Area Network (SAN) technology while providing "pay-as-you-grow" scalability to meet the needs of an evolving storage environment.
The SN6000B is available in five models:
- HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/48-port Active Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
- HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/24-port Active Power Pack+ Fibre Channel Switch
- HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/48-port Active Fibre Channel Switch
- HP SN6000B 16Gb 48-port/24-port Active Fibre Channel Switch
- HP StoreFabric SN6000B 16Gb Bundled Fibre Channel switch
Power Pack+ includes additional software: Adaptive Networking, Fabric Watch, ISL Trunking, Extended Fabric, Performance Monitor, and Server Application Optimization. Power Pack+ software provides the SAN administrator with the necessary tools to monitor the health and performance of the network, while also ensuring the highest levels of security, scalability and manageability.
HP StoreFabric Series
HP StoreFabric provides the best end-to-end SAN options to address your storage infrastructure needs, including entry level, midmarket, high-end and director class switches and a variety of optics and cables.
HP StoreFabric is:
- Integrated—end-to-end into the HP storage, server and networking ecosystem
Everything is HP tested, certified and serviced to provide a superior SAN experience - Optimized—for virtual server environments and cloud deployments
Designed to reduce costs while increasing packet performance and efficiency. - Comprehensive—portfolio has industry-standard bridges to legacy investments
Choose from directors, switches, multi-protocol routers, data migration appliances, HBAs, CNAs, Optics, Cables and SAN software - Converged—move to new designs while protecting previous investments
Deploy additional technologies; converge unlike protocols (Fibre Channel, 1GbE/10GbE, FCIP, iSCSI, FCoE)
Features and Benefits:
Flexible Fabrics
- High Speed 16Gb optimized inter switch links (ISLs) provide twice the performance as previous generation Fibre Channel switches. The net result is there are fewer links, fewer cables, fewer ports and less power for the same performance.
Metro Cloud Connectivity
- Operating speeds of 16, 10, 8, and 4 Gb/s offer a wide range of performance for long distance connectivity. In addition to native fiber, operating the port at 10 Gb/s is also supported over Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) solutions, such as Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM).
- Integrated Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Compression provides the capability to compress all data in flight, over an ISL which allows the customers the choice of either moving more data or reducing bandwidth costs.
- Integrated Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Encryption provides the capability to encrypt all data in flight, over an ISL. Both encryption and compression can be enabled on the ISL link simultaneously. Enabling ISL encryption results in all data being encrypted as it is sent over a link for added security.
Operational Simplicity
- Diagnostic Ports (D_Ports) are a new port type that enable administrators to identify and isolate optics and cable problems, reducing fabric deployment and diagnostic times. Organizations also can use D_Ports to run a variety of tests for ports, SFPs, and cables for faults, latency, and distance.
- SAN Network Advisor, offered as an option, provides comprehensive management of data center SAN fabrics, including configuration, monitoring, diagnostics, best-practices validation, and management of B-series Directors, Switches, and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).
Cloud Optimized Performance
- Provides aggregate 1536 Gb full-duplex throughput and any eight ports can be trunked for 128 Gb Inter-Switch Links (ISLs). Exchange-based Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by automatically routing data to the most efficient available path.
Specification:
HP StoreFabric SN6000B | |
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Specifications | |
Fibre Channel ports | Switch mode (default): 24-, 36-, and 48-port configurations (12-port increments through Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); universal (E, F, M, D, EX) ports |
Number of ports |
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Performance | Auto-sensing of 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds; 10 Gbps and optionally programmable to fixed port speed |
ISL Trunking | Frame-based trunking with up to eight 16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Fabric OS. There is no limit to how many trunk groups can be configured in the switch |
Aggregate switch bandwidth | 1536 Gb/s; Maximum |
Fabric latency | Latency for locally switched ports is 700 ns; encryption/compression is 5.5 sec per node; Forward Error Correction (FEC) adds 400 ns between E_Ports (enabled by default) |
Maximum frame size | 2112-byte payload |
Classes of service | Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames) |
Port types |
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Data traffic types | Fabric switches supporting unicast |
Media types | Hot-pluggable, B-Series Branded Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP), LC connector; Short-Wave Laser (SWL), Long-Wave Laser (LWL); distance depends on fiber-optic cable and port speed. Supports SFP+ (16/10/8 Gbit/sec) optical transceivers |
USB | One USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades |
Fabric services |
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Extension | Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM- 256); integrated 10 Gbps Fibre Channel for DWDM MAN connectivity |
Options | SFP media, USB Device |
Encryption capability | In flight encryption |
Protocol supported | Fibre Channel, Routing |
Availability features | Hot code load; Ports on demand with no downtime |
Management | |
Management features |
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Management software supported |
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Management access | 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre Channel, serial port (RJ-45), and one USB port |
Diagnostics | D_Port offline diagnostics, including electrical/ optical loopback, link traffic/latency/distance; POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including environmental monitoring, FCping and Pathinfo (FC traceroute), frame viewer, non-disruptive daemon restart port mirroring (SPAN port), optics health monitoring, power monitoring, RAStrace logging, and Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD) |
Software (optional) |
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Dimensions and Weight | |
Enclosure | Back-to-front airflow; power from back |
Form factor | 1U |
Minimum Dimensions (W x D x H) |
17.23 x 17.45 x 1.7 in |
Weight | 20.2 lbs |
Environment | |
Temperature | Operating: 0° to 40° C (32° to 104° F) Non-operating: -25° to 70° C (-13° to 158° F) |
Humidity | Operating: 10 to 85 percent non-condensing |
Altitude | Operating: Up to 3000 meters (9,842 feet) Storage: Up to 12 kilometers (39,370 feet) |
Shock | Operating: 20 g, 6 ms half-sine Non-operating: Half sine, 33G 11ms. 3/eg Axis |
Vibration | Operating: 0.5 g sine, 0.4 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz Non-operating: 2.0 g sine, 1.1 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz |
Power | |
Power Supply | Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies with integrated system cooling fans |
AC input | 85 V to 264 V ~5 A to 2.5 A |
Input line frequency | 47 Hz to 63 Hz |
Power Consumption |
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What's Included | |
Differentiator | (24-48) active ports, base software (Fabric OS, Web Tools, Advanced Zoning). Bundled and shipped with twenty-four 16Gb transceivers. RoHS2 Compliant |
Warranty - year(s) (parts/labor/onsite) | 1/1/1 |
What's in the box | SN6000B 48/24 16Gb Fibre Channel Switch with (24-48) active ports, 24 units of 16Gb SFP transceivers, rack-mount kit, accessory kit (enterprise safety and regulatory information, installation guide, rack-mounting instructions), power cords, serial cable, base software of Advanced Fabric OS, Advanced Web Tools, Advanced Zoning and SAN Network Advisor Professional |
HP Technology Services:
Tap into the HP support services advantage, to make the most of your investments. Depending on your individual support requirements, choose from three levels of support that cover your storage lifecycle.
Optimized Care: delivers best performance and stability through deployment and proactive management practices
- HP Critical Advantage Level 3 Service - Choose this service when you need an end-to-end infrastructure support solution that encompasses server, operating system, hypervisor, storage, and network. It's the level of support well suited for business-critical applications running on virtualized and x86 infrastructures. (Includes 60 Critical Advantage flexible credits.)
Or:
- 3-Year HP Critical Service - Designed for environments where downtime cannot be tolerated, HP monitors your environment around-the-clock, 365 days a year. We implement improvement projects to mitigate risks and reduce incidents. If outages do occur, they are addressed immediately with access to our dedicated critical support escalation resources.
Standard Care: Maintains high level of uptime, along with expert help to cut the cost and complexity of implementation and support
- HP Critical Advantage Level 2 Service - Opt for end-to-end infrastructure support including server, operating system, hypervisor, storage, and network in an environment running business critical applications on virtualized and x86 infrastructures. (Includes 30 Critical Advantage flexible credits.)
Or:
- 3-Year HP Proactive 24 Service - This is the right choice for environments where some downtime is acceptable. HP helps manage your IT environment for improved performance, stability, and availability. Your incidents are addressed 24x7, with a maximum 4-hour onsite response 365 days a year.
Plus:
- HP Proactive Select - Choose from an extensive menu of consultancy and technical services, such as onsite firmware upgrades, health checks, assessments, and education. (Includes 30 Proactive Select flexible credits.)
Basic Care: Delivers the minimum recommended support
- 3-Year HP Proactive 24 Service - This is the right choice for environments where some downtime is acceptable. HP helps manage your IT environment for improved performance, stability, and availability. Your incidents are addressed 24x7, with a maximum 4-hour onsite response 365 days a year.
If none of our support recommendations meet your needs, we can tailor a service solution for your unique support requirements. HP brings together deep expertise, proactive and business critical support, and a strong partner network—plus, a full set of infrastructure services designed to power a converged infrastructure.
Documentation:
Download the HP StoreFabric SN6000B QuickSpecs (PDF).

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